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Dynamic quantum circuits combine mid-circuit measurement with classical feed-forward, enabling circuit constructions with reduced entangling-gate depth. Here, we investigate their use in Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (QITE), where…

量子物理 · 物理学 2026-03-06 Albert Lund , Erika Magnusson , Werner Dobrautz , Laura García-Álvarez

We introduce a method to solve the MaxCut problem efficiently based on quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE). We employ a linear Ansatz for unitary updates and an initial state involving no entanglement, as well as an…

Imaginary Time Evolution (QITE) approximates this evolution on quantum hardware but suffers from high circuit depth and numerous measurements. In this work we introduce Adaptive-time Compressed QITE (ACQ), a novel algorithm that reduces…

Efficient ground state search is fundamental to advancing combinatorial optimization problems and quantum chemistry. While the Variational Imaginary Time Evolution (VITE) method offers a useful alternative to Variational Quantum Eigensolver…

量子物理 · 物理学 2026-04-10 Ryo Suzuki , Shohei Watabe

Quantum simulation on emerging quantum hardware is a topic of intense interest. While many studies focus on computing ground state properties or simulating unitary dynamics of closed systems, open quantum systems are an interesting target…

量子物理 · 物理学 2022-03-21 Hirsh Kamakari , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich

A probabilistic imaginary-time evolution (PITE) method was proposed as a nonvariational method to obtain a ground state on a quantum computer. In this formalism, the success probability of obtaining all imaginary-time evolution operators…

量子物理 · 物理学 2022-12-29 Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yusuke Nishiya , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

Developing scalable quantum algorithms to study finite-temperature physics of quantum many-body systems has attracted considerable interest due to recent advancements in quantum hardware. However, such algorithms in their present form…

Imaginary-time evolution is fundamental for analyzing quantum many-body systems, yet classical simulation requires exponentially growing resources in both system size and evolution time. While quantum approaches reduce the system-size…

量子物理 · 物理学 2025-12-12 Lei Zhang , Jizhe Lai , Xian Wu , Xin Wang

The representation of a quantum wave function as a neural network quantum state (NQS) provides a powerful variational ansatz for finding the ground states of many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, due to the complex variational landscape,…

量子物理 · 物理学 2023-12-06 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

We introduce a constructive method for mapping non-unitary dynamics to a weighted set of unitary operations. We utilize this construction to derive a new correspondence between real and imaginary time, which we term Imaginary Time Quantum…

量子物理 · 物理学 2024-09-11 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Denys I. Bondar , Gerard McCaul

In this paper, we apply the deterministic quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm to obtain the ground state of a $2+1$-dimensional pure $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory. We first construct the set of Pauli operators commuting…

高能物理 - 格点 · 物理学 2026-04-29 Minoru Sekiyama , Lento Nagano

We develop a resource efficient step-merged quantum imaginary time evolution approach (smQITE) to solve for the ground state of a Hamiltonian on quantum computers. This heuristic method features a fixed shallow quantum circuit depth along…

The imaginary-time evolution method is widely known to be efficient for obtaining the ground state in quantum many-body problems on a classical computer. A recently proposed quantum imaginary-time evolution method (QITE) faces problems of…

量子物理 · 物理学 2021-06-04 Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm designed for current and near-term quantum devices. Despite its initial success, there is a lack of understanding involving several of its key aspects. There…

量子物理 · 物理学 2023-03-22 Manpreet Singh Jattana , Fengping Jin , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

Efficiently preparing approximate ground-states of large, strongly correlated systems on quantum hardware is challenging and yet nature is innately adept at this. This has motivated the study of thermodynamically inspired approaches to…

Gradient descent is a fundamental algorithm in both theory and practice for continuous optimization. Identifying its quantum counterpart would be appealing to both theoretical and practical quantum applications. A conventional approach to…

量子物理 · 物理学 2023-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Ethan Hickman , Joseph Li , Xiaodi Wu

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is a recent and rapidly evolving field where the theoretical framework and logic of quantum mechanics are employed to solve machine learning tasks. Various techniques with different levels of quantum-classical…

量子物理 · 物理学 2023-04-17 Alessandro Giovagnoli , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Double-bracket quantum imaginary-time evolution (DB-QITE) is a quantum algorithm which coherently implements steps in the Riemannian steepest-descent direction for the energy cost function. DB-QITE is derived from Brockett's double-bracket…

量子物理 · 物理学 2026-02-05 René Zander , Raphael Seidel , Li Xiaoyue , Marek Gluza

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution duration $\tau$. Reducing this duration is critical for practical…

量子物理 · 物理学 2026-04-21 Yumeng Zeng , Jeongrak Son , Mile Gu , Xiao Yuan

The real- and imaginary-time evolution of quantum states are powerful tools in physics, chemistry, and beyond, to investigate quantum dynamics, prepare ground states or calculate thermodynamic observables. On near-term devices, variational…

量子物理 · 物理学 2024-02-27 Julien Gacon , Jannes Nys , Riccardo Rossi , Stefan Woerner , Giuseppe Carleo